Simon Strauss

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Simon Strauss (* 1988 in Berlin ) is a German writer , journalist and historian .

Life

Strauss is the son of the writer and playwright Botho Strauss (* 1944) and the radio author Manuela Reichart . His grandfather is the chemist, pharmacist and medical journalist Eduard Strauss (1890–1971).

As a student, Strauss was part of a group that met regularly with the Jewish Shoah survivor and contemporary witness Rolf Joseph. The book "I Must Go On - The Story of Mr. Joseph" was born from these encounters. The group continues to exist and organizes an annual competition that invites schoolchildren to grapple with Jewish history and life in Germany.

Strauss studied Classical Studies and History at the University of Basel , the University of Poitiers and the University of Cambridge . This was followed by a doctorate at the Collaborative Research Center "Transformations of Antiquity" with Aloys Winterling . In 2017 he received his doctorate from the Humboldt University in Berlin with a study on the ancient historians Theodor Mommsen and Matthias Gelzer . Since 2016 he has been an editor in the features section of the FAZ as the successor to Gerhard Stadelmaier . In 2017 he published his literary debut Seven Nights , followed by his second book, Roman Days , in the summer of 2019 . In 2020 he published the book Schedule Change! in which 30 authors each describe a little-known piece as a proposal for the repertoire of German-language theaters, including Daniel Kehlmann , Nino Harati wili , Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Botho Strauss .

He is a founding member and board member of the Arbeit an Europa eV association. Strauss is the initiator of the European contemporary witness project European Archive of Voices , which is supported by the Gerda Henkel Foundation and the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation . In addition, he has a teaching position at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen , where he gave a course on the reception of ancient Rome in the journalism of the 20th and 21st centuries in the 2018/19 winter semester.

The Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts is one of Simon Strauss as a full member of the Department of Performing Arts.

Seven nights

The story Seven Nights is the literary debut of Simon Strauss. The story is about a young man who, in a mood of sadness, reflects on future life as an adult. The book is divided into seven chapters according to traditional ideas of the seven deadly sins : greed, pride, laziness, envy, anger, gluttony, lust. "Under cover of the night, from the experience of the seven deadly sins, he develops the contours of a better world, a more intense life".

In the taz at the beginning of 2018, Alem Grabovac accused Strauss of serving “the agenda of the right with his ultra-romanticism” in Seven Nights . This claim contradicted u. a. Ijoma Mangold , Tilman Krause , Nora Bossong and Knut Cordsen . The debate spread widely and led to different positions. The book Seven Nights achieved its best placement on the bestseller list in summer 2017 (category: hardcover fiction).

Publications (selection)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Debate on suspicion about Simon Strauss and the rights to br.de on January 17, 2018, accessed on April 4, 2019 (archived version)
  2. ↑ How it all began. Retrieved April 9, 2019 (German).
  3. ↑ The price. Retrieved April 9, 2019 (German).
  4. ↑ Björn Hayer: "Seven Nights": A huge literary debut by Simon Strauss . In: Berliner Zeitung . ( berliner-zeitung.de [accessed on January 18, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Boris Pofalla: A man sees Rome , Die Welt, June 22, 2019, accessed on August 19, 2019
  6. ↑ More Russians and more sex. May 28, 2020, accessed June 12, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Who we are. Retrieved on July 4, 2020 (German).
  8. ↑ Home -. Accessed March 27, 2019 (Swiss Standard German).
  9. ↑ bouquet. Retrieved April 4, 2019 .
  10. ^ Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts: Members. Retrieved October 12, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Quote from: Salonfestival , accessed on August 17, 2019
  12. ↑ Alem Grabovac: Debate on the writer Simon Strauss: Fuel for the reactionaries . In: The daily newspaper: taz . January 8, 2018, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed January 18, 2018]).
  13. ↑ a b Ijoma Mangold, Antonia Baum: Debate: Is the growing argument about the young Simon Strauss completely out of thin air? In: The time . January 17, 2018, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed April 4, 2019]).
  14. ^ Tilman Krause: Simon Strauss Debate: Who Says That Romanticism Is Right? In: The world . January 17, 2018 ( welt.de [accessed January 18, 2018]).
  15. ↑ Nora Bossong: Debate allegations against Simon Strauss: witch hunt on wet shave . In: The daily newspaper: taz . January 18, 2018, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed January 21, 2018]).
  16. ↑ Eating meat, being a hero, feeling great. In: mdr Das Altpapier. January 18, 2018, accessed January 21, 2018 .
  17. ↑ Leaving the Church in the Village and the Messiah in the Bible / about Simon Strauss and the TAZ article by Alem Grabovac - 54books . In: 54books . January 10, 2018 ( 54books.de [accessed January 21, 2018]).
  18. ↑ Comment from Jens-Christian Rabe: Fatal friend-enemy logic . In: sueddeutsche.de . 2018, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed on January 21, 2018]).
  19. ↑ book report. Retrieved on July 11, 2019 (German).
  20. ↑ (On the location of the theater), FAZ in August 2015
  21. ↑ (On the situation of the dramaturge), FAZ in May 2017
  22. ↑ Simon Strauss: Seven Nights, moderation: Knut Cordsen (BR) . ( muenchner-kammerspiele.de [accessed on January 18, 2018]).
  23. ↑ Award from the Lübeck Buddenbrookhaus / Simon Strauss wins debut prize. Retrieved January 18, 2018 .
  24. ^ Jewish German History Award for Simon Strauss , buchmarkt.de, January 23, 2018, accessed on January 24, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Strauss, Simon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Strauss, Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, writer and journalist (FAZ)
DATE OF BIRTH 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin